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Tuesday, 6 February 2018

The Phantoms of Morialta Falls

The Phantoms of Morialta Falls

In the last few months of 2017, I was contact by multiple
people about strange goings on in the carpark of the Morialta Conservation
Park.

Morialta is just 10kms from the city of Adelaide, and has
been a popular destination with locals for over 100 years. It contains three
waterfalls along Fourth Creek, and has a network of extensive walking trails.
It also contains a rock climbing zone.

Witnesses are reporting seeing phantoms in the park, human
ghosts and those of phantom vehicles, with one being very strange indeed.

Witness one recounted a story of being at the falls late one
evening with two friends. They had gone for a drive “for something to do”, and
found themselves at Morialta. They began to explore the walking trail, and
could see quite clearly under the light of a full moon.While walking along one of the trails
heading towards a waterfall, they noticed ahead of them a peculiar white colour
shape, that almost seemed to sparkle in the moonlight.As they got closer they realised it was
a young woman, (they determined this by the shape of the mist, and the fact it
seemed to have long wavy hair past the shoulders).The three of them stopped, all their
hair standing on end, and watched as the female like white mist sparkled some
more, then turned towards them, floating very quickly in their direction,
before it vanished entirely.They very quickly high tailed it out of
there, back to their car, and have never returned to the park for more
adventures!

The second story
recounted to me involves several people driving to the car park. As they
entered they noticed a car parked by itself off to one side. There didn’t seem
to be anyone in the car, so they figured the owners were off walking through
the park and paid it no more attention.The small convey had all parked near
each other, and got out of their cars, laughing and joking when all of the
sudden an eerie quiet fell over the group, and a feeling of foreboding overtook
the mood of frivolity that had previously overcome the group.As they stood there looking at each
other, the temperature dropped very suddenly, and a mist formed around the
group.
As they stood there, shivering, with mouths agape, wondering what the hell was
going on, a large shaped moved through the mist and revealed itself right in
front of their eyes. A very large, very black old horse drawn hearse, with no
horses, silently glided into view between them, and headed towards the solitary
parked car.One of the girls screamed in terror,
which seemed to break everyone’s stupor, and they all high-tailed it back to
their cars and “booted” it out of there… A further retelling of this story can be
found online at: http://www.paranormal.com.au/public/index.php?topic=11298.0.
This retelling of the same story also goes on to state that the next day one of
the witnesses saw the car that had been parked in the carpark on the news. It
was surrounded by police tape, as the night before the owner had committed
suicide in the park (A detail omitted from the version told too me).

I can not confirm at
this point that the story of the Hearse, in particular the suicide and subsequent
news report are true, however, there have been plenty of deaths at the park.

In 1917, 17-year-old Lyle Heddle died in the Adelaide
Hospital from injuries suffered after falling from the cliffs at Morialta.

In 1926, the body of 27-year-old Alfred Jury was found lying
in a pool of water at the base of the falls. His face had been badly
disfigured, so much so in fact, that it could not be declared at the time if he
had committed suicide with his rifle, or simply fell from the cliff tops and
landed on his face.

His bike, with shot rabbits was later
found at the top of the cliffs, but his gun never recovered.

1939, the body of 40-year-old Butcher, Robert Cantlon of
Prospect, was found dead in the pool underneath waterfall one. Cantlon, it is
thought, slipped at the top of fall one, trying to get a look over the edge.

In 1940, Royston
Daniels, 13 of Prospect was killed when he fell 115ft from fall number one,
trying to save his friend, Raymond Jenkins, who had slipped from rocks, half
way down the cliff face.Daniels died on impact.

In 1951, William Collins, 23 of Hyde Park, died at the falls
after being struck in the head by a rock. The coroner of the day declared the
death an accident, as at that time, throwing rocks, or rolling them down the
hills at Morialta was a common practice, and it could not be determined from
which direction the rock had come, nor if it had been thrown with ill intent.

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All photos remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are displayed here for the purpose of education, research and review under the copyright act "fair usage" clause.

Some photo's used on this website are sourced from The Sate Library of South Australia, and The National Library of Australia and http://www.gawler.nowandthen.net.au - all photos are out of copyright and have no usage restrictions implied.

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